Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Card-Scraping Code Has Infiltrated Over 100,000 E-Commerce Sites Over the past year, there's been a surge in so-called Magecart attacks, involving payment card data being stolen from e-commerce sites via injected attack code. Researchers say they are tracing at least six active Magecart groups, each with unique infrastructure, skimmers and targeting.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
If you own a domain name that gets decent traffic and you fail to pay its annual renewal fee, chances are this mistake will be costly for you and for others. Lately, neglected domains have been getting scooped up by crooks who use them to set up fake e-commerce sites that steal credit card details from unwary shoppers. For nearly 10 years, Portland, Ore. resident Julie Randall posted pictures for her photography business at julierandallphotos-dot-com , and used an email address at that domain to
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
$21 Million Lost to Business Email Compromise Fraudsters French film production and distribution company Pathe fired the two senior managers overseeing its Dutch operations after they fell victim to a business email compromise scam and approved $21 million in transfers to fraudsters. Many organizations remain at high risk from such scams.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Cyber criminals are deploying the very latest in automated weaponry, namely botnets, to financially plunder corporate networks. The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Data Routes Through Russia, Nigeria and China, Raising Security Concerns Google is investigating the unorthodox routing of traffic bound for its cloud services that instead traveled via internet service provides in Nigeria, Russia and China. Security experts say border gateway protocol is to blame, but that no easy fix is in sight.
Information Management Today brings together the best content for information management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Card-Scraping Code Has Infiltrated Over 100,000 E-Commerce Sites Over the past year, there's been a surge in so-called Magecart attacks, which involve payment card data being stolen from e-commerce sites via injected attack code. Researchers say they are tracing at least six active Magecart groups, each with unique infrastructure, skimmers and targeting.
Data Matters
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
European Digital Rights (EDRi), a digital user rights non-for-profit organisation, on 25 October 2018, launched an online platform, ‘ GDPR Today ’. In its first edition of the GDPR Today , the EDRi published statistics collected from eight EU Member States (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom). The statistics show that since the GDPR’s entry into force on 25 May 2018, data protection authorities (DPAs) have received thousands of complaints from EU indi
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
75,000 Victims' Income, Pregnancy Status and More Potentially Exposed More than two weeks after announcing that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, had been hacked, the Department of Health and Human Services has revealed that the breach exposed a wealth of information, including partial Social Security numbers and immigration status.
Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The American business and financial services company Moody’s will start factoring risk of getting hacked into their credit ratings for companies. The move is seen as part of a wider initiative to gauge the risk of cyberattacks and data breaches to companies and their investors. “We’ve been in the risk management business for a very long time. This is to enhance our thinking about credit as cyber becomes more and more important,” said Derek Valda, head of Moody’s Investors Services Cyber Ri
Advertisement
Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Manufacturers need to change their approach to securing internet of things devices, says Aloysius Cheang, executive vice president for Asia Pacific at the Center for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science, a U.K.-based think tank, who describes what needs to be done.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 fixed more than 60 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows flaw. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 addressed 63 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows privilege escalation vulnerability. Twelve of the flaws were rated as “Critical”, 49 are rated Important, two vulnerabilities were publicly known at the time of release (CVE-2018-8584, a Windows ALPC elevation of privilege issue, an
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
75,000 Victims' Income, Pregnancy Status and More Potentially Exposed More than two weeks after announcing that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, had been hacked, the Department of Health and Human Services has revealed that the breach exposed a wealth of information, including partial Social Security numbers and immigration status.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
On November 8, 2018, Privacy International (“Privacy”), a non-profit organization “dedicated to defending the right to privacy around the world,” filed complaints under the GDPR against consumer marketing data brokers Acxiom and Oracle. In the complaint, Privacy specifically requests the Information Commissioner (1) conduct a “full investigation into the activities of Acxiom and Oracle,” including into whether the companies comply with the rights ( i.e. , right to access, right to information, e
Advertisement
Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The FDA's recently issued draft document updating its premarket medical device cybersecurity guidance originally issued in 2014 contains several important provisions, says regulatory attorney Yarmela Pavlovic, who explains the details.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Six months since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force, pseudonymisation and data encryption remain the only technology measures specifically mentioned in the famously technology-agnostic Regulation. Article 32 of the GDPR highlights “the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data” as one of the “appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk”.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The toughest security problems involve people not technology. Here's how to motivate your frontline employees all the way from the service desk to the corner office.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday fixes include mitigation against a zero-day vulnerability leaving Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 open to attack.
Advertisement
“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The incident, which Google reports is now resolved, could be the result of either technical mistakes or malicious activity.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The vulnerability is one of many with the same root cause: Cross-process information leakage.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
A new report spills the details on Magecart, the criminal groups driving it, and ongoing attacks targeting low- and high-profile victims.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
OpenText™ Discovery serves a broad and diverse legal market with a range of solutions. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw and Pittman leverage OpenText™ Axcelerate™ to power massive eDiscovery litigation projects; Liberty Mutual Insurance leverage OpenText™ EnCase™ to forensically collect data from tens of thousands of custodians; the UK SFO uses OpenText Axcelerate to investigate mountains of digital … The post OpenText Discovery Release 16 EP5 raises the bar for legal technology appeared first on O
Advertisement
If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Eight of the 12 critical vulnerabilities addressed this month affect the Chakra Scripting Engine in Microsoft Edge.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) projects can be expensive, data and network intensive implementations which often end in frustration for global organizations. Common approaches to continuous monitoring require bloated agents, put a burden on network traffic and may open a company to the risk of privacy violations through over-collection of endpoint telemetry.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
On November 9, 2018, the European Commission (“the Commission”) submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) in response to its request for public comments on developing the administration’s approach to consumer privacy. In its comments , the Commission welcomes and agrees with many of the high-level goals identified by NTIA, including harmonization of the legal landscape, incentivizing privacy research, employing a r
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
VIDEO: Alissa Johnson, CISO at Xerox and former Deputy CIO at the White House, outlines compliance steps that could help all enterprises.
Advertisement
Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
The Guardian Data Protection
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Opposition likely to win Senate support to extend opt-out, which ends on Thursday, by 12 months Labor has announced it will move to amend the Coalition’s My Health Record bill in a bid to extend the opt-out period, days before records will be created automatically for 17m Australians. The push for a 12-month extension of the 15 November deadline is likely to win Senate support after Labor, the Greens, Centre Alliance and the crossbench called for a suspension in a non-binding motion on Monday.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Information security is vital, of course. But the concept of "IT security" has never made sense.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
An attorney in the infamous 2015 Jeep hack predicts that more lawsuits related to IoT security are looming in the future.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
252 
Let's personalize your content